1832 in literature - Definition

See also: 1831 in literature, other events of 1832, 1833 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• The Houghton Mifflin publishing house founded in Boston, Massachusetts
• Publishers begin the use of a paper jacket to wrap book covers
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe completes Faust

New Books

• Castle Dangerous - Sir Walter Scott
• Combination - Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
• Contarini Fleming - Benjamin Disraeli
• Count Robert of Paris - Sir Walter Scott
• The Doomed One - Rosalia St. Clair
• Eugene Aram - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
• The Fair of Mayfair - Catherine Gore
• Fitzallan - Robert Huish
• Indiana - George Sand
• Legend of the Moor's Legacy - Washington Irving
• Nautical Reminiscences - Nathaniel Ames
• Newton Forster - Frederick Marryat
• The Opera - Catherine Gore
• The Unchanged - Selina Davenport
• Valentine - George Sand
• Volupte - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Births

• January 13 - Horatio Alger, Jr., writer (+ 1899)
• January 27 - Lewis Carroll, author (+ 1898)
• June 11 – Jules Vallés, writer (+ 1885)
• November 29 - Louisa May Alcott, author (+ 1888)
• Hesba Stretton, English children's author (+ 1911)

Deaths

• March 22 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer and poet
• September 21 - Sir Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist and poet
• November 14 - Rasmus Christian Rask, Danish philologist

Awards